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Excerpt from Beckert's Bulb Catalogue, 1920 For house - culture, plant 'four to six bulbs in a 6-inch pot, and In proportion for the larger sizes of bulb-pans; treat as advised for hyacinths. Good roots and plenty of them before bringing plant's to l'ight and warmth are essential to success. The figures after names of varieties indicate the ave ra'ge height 1n inches to which they g.row Varieties most suitable for forcing are indicated by a star The letter E indicates those that blo m earliest, M medium, and L latest. The order of owering 18 indicated by the letters A, B, C, and D. The difference in time of owering is not great, so that those under the A class can be planted with those of the B class, and the B class with the C class, and so on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.